Sundance films with Texas connections

January 25, 2013 |Compiled by Dana Guthrie

Despina Spyrou

Before Midnight

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Description: The third in a series, "Before Midnight" continues a love story between two strangers, Celine and Jesse, who met on a train headed for Vienna. It's now nine years after their last rendezvous, and they are in their early forties in Greece.

Texas link: The film's director, Richard Linklater, was born in Houston and attended Huntsville High School and Bellaire High School. He studied at Sam Houston State University and Alvin Community College. He also founded the Austin Film Society in 1985, to showcase films from around the world that would not normally be shown in Austin.

Description: The third in a series, "Before Midnight" continues a love story between two strangers, Celine and Jesse, who met on a train headed for Vienna. It's now nine years after their last rendezvous, and they are in their early forties in Greece.

Texas link: The film's director, Richard Linklater, was born in Houston and attended Huntsville High School and Bellaire High School. He studied at Sam Houston State University and Alvin Community College. He also founded the Austin Film Society in 1985, to showcase films from around the world that would not normally be shown in Austin.